Word: sforza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trial Balance. If Badoglio's cobelligerent Italy was a military plus and an economic minus, politically it was a plain enigma. In declaring war against Germany, Badoglio said that representatives of all political parties will be asked to participate in the Government. But liberal Count Carlo Sforza, on the eve of entering Italy, was still saying he could not enter a Cabinet headed by Badoglio...
Hour of Hope. Count Sforza shaped a program for Italy...
...unanimity of the war effort, it is necessary to put the problem of the King and his family on ice for the duration." Carlo Sforza agreed with his old friend, Philosopher Benedetto Croce, who had told an American correspondent in southern Italy that the Royal Family was "ignoble." Said Carlo Sforza: "The greatest mistake of Allied policy is to support the discredited House of Savoy. An attempt by the Allies to force the monarchy on the nation, or to repair its prestige, will cause resentment and future trouble...
...soon as the task of liberation permits, there must be free elections. I do not doubt that Italians will vote for a progressive republic." Carlo Sforza had an old man's vision: "When the time comes, there must first be agrarian reform, an end of landless peasants and great estates. The economy of Italy might well be patterned after that of prewar Czecho-Slovakia. A thriving Catholic nation of small landowners and busy workers is the best bulwark against communism...
...Carlo Sforza spoke for a group of liberal exiles. How closely he reflected the temper and opinion of Italy's people, and how he might fit into the Allied plan for Italy, he would soon know...